CXXXV (Re)leituras -- Memorial de Aires, by Machado de Assis, comments by André Bandeira 18 Aug 2013 | 06:02 am

This is a Memoir of a retired diplomat, who -- according to his own words -- decided to retire in order to believe in the capabality of others of being sincere. He also states, at a certain point, tha...

CXXXIV (Re)leituras) -- Iáiá Garcia, by Machado de Assis, comments by André Bandeira 12 Aug 2013 | 03:55 am

Powerful novel by the one I'm tending to consider, more and more, as the greatest novelist of the world which speaks in Portuguese. But we need Poetry to relieve us from the witchcraft of a novelist. ...

CXXXIII (Re) leituras -- Recordações do Escrivão Isaías Caminha, by Lima Barreto, comments by André Bandeira 6 Aug 2013 | 01:25 pm

This is the first novel of the brazilian writer Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto, a very good writer of the first quarter of the XXtieth Century. Its title could be translated as «Memories of the cler...

CXXXII - (Re) leituras -- The world until yesterday -- what we can learn from traditional societies, by Jared Diamond, comments by André Bandeira 30 Jun 2013 | 12:20 am

People tend to make comparisons between vivid experiences they recently had, and reality as they see it. But it was'nt always like that .The way we see our experience also depends on the way we see im...

CXXXI (Re)leituras -- La Arqueologia y la Etnohistoria - un encuentro andino, Edit. by John Topic, comments by André Bandeira 29 Jun 2013 | 11:44 pm

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This is the ultimate in Archeoloy and Ethnohistory on the Andean region (Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina) that means on the Inca civilization. It is a common task undertaken by the « Instituto de Estu...

CXXX (Re)leituras -- A Study of History, by Arnold Toynbee, comments by André Bandeira 12 Apr 2013 | 09:54 am

It's a long, long way to Tipperary. This classic on History was so much political! The more we write, on an Internet sheet, the more we go beyond books, where a kind of thourough thesis was supposed t...

CXXIX(Re)leituras -- Die Hanse, von Karl Pagel, Bemerkungen von André Bandeira 25 Feb 2013 | 07:41 am

Die Hanse, der kaufmannische, militär und politischerVerband, von Brügge, in Flandern, bis zum Nowgorod in Russland, den ein Maximum von 77 deutschen Städte aufgebaut haben, hat wegen einer drei Jahrh...

CXXVIII (Re) Leituras - Evil in Modern Thought - an alternative History of Philosophy, by Susan Neiman, commenst by André Bandeira 18 Feb 2013 | 01:16 pm

This one comes from Princeton, and was written in Israel. The author has an intriguing sentence at some point, when one turns the page. The classics have doubted of the existence of the world we see, ...

CXXVII (Re)leituras - I Sofisti, da Mario Untersteiner, commenti da André Bandeira 15 Feb 2013 | 05:08 am

Questo è un libro che fa la genealogia della Democrazia e non più, la sua etimologia (demos: popolo; kratia: potere). Scritto nel 49 da un erudito in Filologia classica, non deve essere  venduto, comè...